Dinosaurs may have warmed the prehistoric Earth's climate thanks to enormous amounts of methane-producing flatulence, researchers say.
Sauropods — the long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs that included some of the largest ever land animals — could have produced enough methane to have "an important effect" on climate change, according to a report to be published in Tuesday's edition of Current Biology.
"Indeed, our calculations suggest that these dinosaurs could have produced more methane than all modern sources — both natural and man-made — put together," Dave Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University said in a statement .... http://www.cbc.ca
